Three years after steep price hike, Martin Shkreli’s drug company is losing money, documents show

Martin Shkreli’s former company is losing money, watching sales of its famously costly medicine slip while considering yet another name change.

Vyera Pharmaceuticals, formerly called Turing Pharmaceuticals, lost more than $1 million in the first quarter of 2018, according to financial documents obtained by STAT. Sales, driven by the $750-a-pill Daraprim, have been on the wane over the past two years, falling more than 14 percent in 2017 and on pace to drop another 7 percent in 2018.

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The problem with this article is that you don’t separate R&D. This is voluntarily high and not a mandatory expense. I could be wrong but this is the company’s objective. Unlike large pharma they reinvest almost every $ to develop new and better drugs